Definition of Transcontinental

extending or crossing a continent

Examples of Transcontinental in a sentence

The first transcontinental telegraph connected an existing network in the east of the U.S. to a smaller network in California.  🔊

Transcontinental flights take place every day, taking passengers from Eastern Asia to countries in West Asia.  🔊

In 1915, Alexander Graham Bell made his famous transcontinental phone call from New York to San Francisco.  🔊

Direct mail was delivered by the Transcontinental Express which took letters from one end of the continent to the other.  🔊

A transcontinental railroad is planned to span across all of Europe and take riders from one region to another.  🔊

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